Honor
At least a few collectors have had confusion between ‘Honor’, ‘Hope’, and ‘Good Will’. The flower colors are virtually identical, but ‘Honor’ has light cream/white stigmas, ‘Hope’ has light pink, and ‘Good Will’ has darker pink. Foliage is also quite different but more difficult to describe. So be sure to check the color of the stigmas on your plants to verify.
| Cultivar: | Honor |
| Year: | 1941 |
| Seedling No: | 8410. Pages 146 & 157 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 8: lactiflora ‘Venus’ X ‘Otto Froebel’ |
| Flower: | Color: | bright pink |
| Form: | single, 2 rows of petals, crinkled, open flower | |
| Blooms: | Week 4 | |
| Carpels: | 3-4, pale green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | very light cream | |
| Disc: | white, conspicuous | |
| Stamens: | filaments are white | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright spreading |
| Foliage color: | light green | |
| Foliage form: | leaflets are lobed | |
| Height: | 29″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Recommended |
| Availability: | Several specialty nurseries |
